Commonwealth NGOs related to forestry

CAMEROON

Centre for Environment and Development

B.P. 3430

Yaoundé

Cameroon

Email:

Website: http://www.cedcameroun.org/

Type:  NGO   

Scope:  national   

Interest in Forestry:  peripheral

Description

Created in 1995, the Centre for Environment and Development (CED) works on sustainability issues, capacity-building with communities and indigenous groups, organic farming and community forestry. Several FoE groups campaign with CED against the controversial Chad-Cameroon pipeline. CED joined FoEI in 1999, and takes part in the following FoEI campaigns and programs: climate change, desertification, ecological debt, forests, genetically modified organisms, international financial institutions, mining, ozone, and trade, environment and sustainability